It's Just a Model

013 – It’s Just A Model – Church of Mode

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It’s Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.

Your hosts are Ron Kersic, and Peet Sneekes.

In this podcast we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into a informal, unscripted conversation.

It’s Just A Model – 009 – Performative

Time codes/ Chapters

  • 00:00 — Intro
  • 01:20 — The Bitter Lessons
  • 14:00 — “The December Event” in Coding
  • 28:35 — Dominant Designs
  • 33:30 — Actors and AI
  • 40:14 — What is Old is New Again
  • 45:45 — Wander/Wonder Machines
  • 52:25 — Fashion!

Links on the topics we discuss

  • The Bitter Lesson — http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
  • Deep Blue — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)
  • Meta classes — https://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~pearce/modules/lectures/uml2/details/index2.htm
  • Roadside Picnic — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic
  • Project Glasswing — https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing
  • Zero-Day Vulnerability — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_vulnerability
  • John McAfee — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee
  • Dominant Design — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_design
  • FAFO — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJf6iFA2xCY
  • MemPalace — https://millaj.com/mempalace
  • Ben Affleck’s InterPositive — https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/ben-affleck-just-sold-his-stealth-ai-startup-to-netflix-for-600-million-heres-what-it-actually-does/91315812
  • The Accountant — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accountant_(2016_film)
  • Zettelkasten — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten
  • Agents & Wiki — https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
  • RAG — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation
  • Golfen Gate Claude — https://www.anthropic.com/news/golden-gate-claude
  • Wrong on the Internet — https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/386:_Duty_Calls
  • Lidewij Edelkoort — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidewij_Edelkoort
  • Devils Wears Prads — https://weareactors.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/The-Devil-Wears-Prada-Monologue.pdf
  • An Engine, Not a Camera — https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262633673/an-engine-not-a-camera/
  • Ana Andjelic — https://www.linkedin.com/in/anaandjelic/

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